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Despite concerns over the past decade regarding the decline of Pacific inshore fisheries and the lack of attention to the fishing activities of women in the region, data on both topics remains rare or superficial. Research is often directed towards those fisheries which earn foreign currency and pro...

Interviews with government staff responsible for fisheries management in Maluku, Indonesia in 1997-98 revealed problems in capacity, and an emphasis on economic development rather than management. The traditional institutions which persisted in some villages to regulate the access and withdrawal rig...

Since the first sublittoral survey off Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia in 1965--66 there has been a cycle of dominance by herbivorous sea urchins followed by mortality of these animals because of disease in 1981 and regrowth of algae. A survey of the same site in 1984 revealed that the algal communities p...

Domoic acid (DOM), the toxin involved in amnesic shellfish poisoning, was presented to live mussels (at 5 degree C, 28 ppt) in dissolved form (125 nM) and as food encapsulated in liposomes. Less than 1% of dissolved DOM and up to 6% of food-borne DOM was incorporated into mussel tissues. DOM absorbe...

This article presents the results of a study performed in 1997-98 on the presence, performance and institutional resilience of sasi, a local traditional resource management system in Central Maluku, Indonesia. The presence and functionality of sasi in 63 villages was determined by way of structured ...

Growing and cast leaves of Zostera marina were sampled from May through December and in February in two embayments of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence to determine the species composition and temporal pattern of macroalgal epiphytes. Thirty-eight species were identified. Some occurred sporadically ...